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" His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her. "
The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First ... - Page 242
by John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...her, as that she speaks through him. His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies...multipliers of the same image ; each picture, like a mock rainbow, is but the refection of a reflection. But every single character in Shakespear is as...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and ...

New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 406 pages
...her, as that she speaks through him. His characters are so much nature herself, that it i.. a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies...of other poets have a constant resemblance, which shows that they received them from one another, and were but multipliers of the same image ; each picture,...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection, Moral ..., Volume 2, Parts 3-4

Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...her, as that she speaks through him. His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies...of other poets have a constant resemblance, which shows that they received them from one another, and were but multipliers of the same image ; each picture,...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and ...

New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 408 pages
...her, as that she speaks through him. His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies...of other poets have a constant resemblance, which shows that they received them from one another, and were but multipliers of the same image ; each picture,...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection, Moral, Instructive, and ..., Volume 2

Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 410 pages
...by so distant a name as copies of her. Those of other poets have a constant resemblance, which shows that they received them from one another, and were...multipliers of the same image ; each picture, like a mock rainbow, is but the reflexion of a reflexion. But every single character in Shakspeare is as much...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and ...

New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...by so distant a name as copies of her. Those of other poets have a constant resemblance, which shows that they received them from one another, and were...multipliers of the same image ; each picture, like a mock rainbow, is but the reflexion of a reflexion. But every single character in Shakspeare is as much...
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The Young Lady's Book of Elegant Prose: Comprising Selections from the Works ...

1836 - 342 pages
...her, as that she speaks through him. His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies...of other poets have a constant resemblance, which shows that they received them from one another, and were but multipliers of the same image ; each picture,...
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Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great ..., Volume 2

Samuel Astley Dunham - 1837 - 418 pages
...nature, — the same admirable critic ob" His characters are so-much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies...of other poets have a constant resemblance, which shows that they received them from one another, and were but multipliers of the same image : each picture,...
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The complete works of William Shakspeare, with notes by the most ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 790 pages
...her, as that she speaks through him. His eharaeteri are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of sea Contagions logs; which shows that they received them from one another, and were but multipliers of the same image : each picture,...
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Characters of Shakespear's plays

William Hazlitt - 1838 - 360 pages
...her, as that she speaks through him. " His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies...of other poets have a constant resemblance, which shows that they have received them from one another, and were but multipliers of the same image : each...
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